Steinbeck John

The Winter of Our Discontent

1961réf. T515VERY GOOD — DUST JACKET: Chipping to top of spine and top outside corners. Small closed tears to top front edge and back bottom flap fold. Very minor chipping to bottom outside corners. Stressing/abrasions to spine hinges and flap folds w/very small closed tears to latter. BOARDS: Very good condition. BOOK: Minor offsetting to endpapers primarily rear w/very light foxing spots to latter. Please inspect photos closely for condition details. Here on offer is a very nice copy of John Steinbeck's last novel The Winter of Our Discontent the basis for the 1983 TV movie of the same name starring Donald Sutherland Teri Garr and Tuesday Weld. This is a true 1st American trade edition 1st printing of the work published by Viking Press. The dust jacket is protected from further wear by a Brodart sleeve. "IN AWARDING John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature the Nobel committee stated that with 'The Winter of Our Discontent' he had 'resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American.' Ethan Allen Hawley the protagonist of the novel works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With the decline in their status his wife is restless and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day in a moment of moral crisis Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards." ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. February 27 1902 – December 20 1968 was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature 'for his realistic and imaginative writings combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception'. He has been called 'a giant of American letters.' During his writing career he authored 33 books with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts including 16 novels six non-fiction books and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels Tortilla Flat 1935 and Cannery Row 1945 the multi-generation epic East of Eden 1952 and the novellas The Red Pony 1933 and Of Mice and Men 1937. The Pulitzer Prize–winning The Grapes of Wrath 1939 is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the American literary canon. In the first 75 years after it was published it sold 14 million copies. Most of Steinbeck's work is set in central California particularly in the Salinas Valley and the California Coast Ranges region. His works frequently explored the themes of fate and injustice especially as applied to downtrodden or everyman protagonists." The above text was taken from respctively Penguin publishing via Google Books and Wikipedia. Viking Press hardcover

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